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...example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome. One of the major changes will occur in Ford's Falcon, which has borrowed liberally from the successful Mustang, with a short rear deck and a long hood; like most other Ford models, the Falcon has also adopted the hop-up, or gently swelling rear-fender curve, pioneered by General Motors...
...late as 1847, when this scene was witnessed, the mustang myriads that wandered the great plains were one of the principal natural resources of the wild West. Broken to the saddle, harnessed to the plow, they became an instrument of manifest destiny, the brute force that bore forward the men who won the West. In this classic compendium of horse lore, republished for the first time since 1940, a generation obsessed with horsepower is vividly reminded of the power of the horse...
From the Arabs. Mustang is the Texas translation of the Mexican mesteño, a general term for anything that looks more like a horse than a cow. The animal the word describes was principally descended from the fiery Arabs imported to the New World by Cortes and his conquistadors, and the rigors of the prairies notably improved the breed. The mustangs of 1850 were short (14-15 hands), hardy and fast: the stronger stallions kept manadas of 20 or 30 mares, and to defend the mares from randy rivals they fought frightful battles to the death...
...Untamed. The most poignant passages in the volume, however, describe what happened to mustangs who could not be tamed. Many of them broke their own backs while trying to buck their riders off. The great White Pacing Stallion, the most famous mustang of them all, was captured after a pursuit of more than 200 miles, but proudly refused to eat in captivity and died. Wildest of all was "the massive steel-dust stallion" described by Blackfoot Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. When his herd was corraled, the stallion went mad with fury and frustration. He murdered two other young stallions...
...free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed off combat aircraft that ranged from McDonnell's supersonic Phantom F-4Bs to a 20-year-old F-51 Mustang fighter, and a 96-ft. Atlas missile towered over the sprawling 85-acre exhibition...